Quantum Mechanics Versus Local Realism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. History of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox

   • Franco Selleri

   Pages 1-61

3. Are Faster-Than-Light Influences Necessary?

   • Henry P. Stapp

   Pages 63-85

4. All the Inequalities of Einstein Locality

   • Augusto Garuccio

   Pages 87-113

5. Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Experiments Using the Decays of ηc or J/ψ into ΛΛ̄ → π-→pπ+p̄

   • Nils A. Törnqvist

   Pages 115-132

6. Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox for the K0-K̄0 and B0-B̄0 Systems

   • Dipankar Home

   Pages 133-147

7. Even Local Probabilities Lead to the Paradox

   • Franco Selleri

   Pages 149-174

8. The Experimental Investigation of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Question and Bell’s Inequality

   • A. J. Duncan, H. Kleinpoppen

   Pages 175-218

9. Rapisarda’s Experiment: Testing Quantum Mechanics versus Local Hidden-Variable Theories with Dichotomic Analyzers

   • Lorenzo Pappalardo, Filippo Falciglia

   Pages 219-234

10. Nonlocality and the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Experiment as Understood through the Quantum-Potential Approach

    • D. Bohm, B. J. Hiley

    Pages 235-256

11. Interpretation of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Effect in Terms of a Generalized Causality

    • Jerzy Rayski

    Pages 257-271

12. Quantum Action-at-a-Distance: The Mystery of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Correlations

    • A. Kyprianidis, J. P. Vigier

    Pages 273-299

13. Particle Trajectories and Quantum Correlations

    • C. Dewdney, P. R. Holland

    Pages 301-325

14. Bell’s Inequality and the Nonergodic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

    • Vincent Buonomano

    Pages 327-343

15. An Extended-Probability Response to the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Argument

    • W. Mückenheim

    Pages 345-364

16. The Search for Hidden Variables in Quantum Mechanics

    • Emilio Santos

    Pages 365-390

17. Variable Detection Probability Models for Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Type Experiments

    • Saverio Pascazio

    Pages 391-411

18. Stochastic Electrodynamics and the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Argument

    • Trevor Marshall

    Pages 413-432

19. Explicit Calculations with a Hidden-Variable Spin Model

    • O. A. Barut

    Pages 433-446

20. Symmetric and Asymmetric Models for Atomic Cascade Experiments

    • Miguel Ferrero, Trevor Marshall, Emilio Santos

    Pages 447-456

If you have two small objects, one here on Earth and the other on the planet Pluto, what would you say of the following statement: No modification of the properties of the object on the earth can take place as a consequence of an interaction of the distant object with a third body also located on Pluto? The opinion that the previous statement is correct is very natural, but modern quantum theory implies that it must be wrong in certain cases. Consider in fact two arbitrary objects separated by such a large distance that they are unable to exert any important mutual influence. It is possible to show rigorously that a measurable physical quantity exists, with a value more than 40% different from the value theoretically predicted by quantum mechanics. Necessarily then, either space is largely an illusion of our senses and it does not exist objectively, or information can be sent from the future to the past, or ... something important has to be changed in modern physics. This is the essence of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox. A paradox is an argument that derives absurd conclusions by valid deduction from acceptable premises. In the case of the EPR paradox the absurd conclusion is that Bell's observable d should have two different values d = 2.Ji and The "acceptable premises" are the following: 1. All the empirical predictions of the existing quantum theory are correct.

• EPR paradox
• Planet
• Potential
• earth
• electrodynamics
• influence
• information
• mechanics
• modern physics
• physics
• quantum mechanics
• quantum theory

• University of Bari, Bari, Italy

  Franco Selleri

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